Cowley Publications
Pages: 155
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Trim: 5¾ x 8½
978-1-56101-256-5 • Paperback • May 2007 • $13.95 • (£10.99)
978-1-4617-3302-7 • eBook • May 2007 • $12.99 • (£9.99)
IRENE ZIMMERMAN, OSF is poet-in-residence at St. Joseph Retreat in Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin. She has been a School Sister of Saint Francis for fifty years, and her poems have appeared in The Christian Century, The Christian Science Monitor, Cross Currents, The Liguorian, Review for Religious, St. Anthony Messenger, Sisters Today, and other publications.
Irene Zimmerman is a poet, and does what poets do. She overrides categories, breaks conventions, says it new, and moves us to where we gasp in the presence of gift. Some say imagination is linked to the Holy Spirit. So it is here, spirit of freedom, spirit of healing, spirit of joy. Irene says Mary's word is ‘yes.' Here it is God's ‘yes' to any listener. I am glad I am among them.
— Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary; Columbia Theological Seminary
This poetry mediates an original insight into the mysteries of the life of Christ, and the simple beauty of the language makes them not only illuminating but touching.
— Sandra M. Schneiders, The author of Written That You May Believe and The Revelatory Text.